Northgate Area Rezone Proposal

May 2007

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Northgate Area Rezone Proposal

Background Information

Seattle's Urban Centers. Over the next 20 years, the City of Seattle is expected to grow by

more than 51,000 households and 92,000 jobs. The City's growth strategy is to guide the

majority of this growth into six designated "Urban Centers", which are compact areas developed

intensively for a mix of land uses. Northgate is one of the City's designated Urban Centers.

Northgate Goals & Revitalization Efforts. A Neighborhood Plan was adopted for the

Northgate Urban Center in 1993 and is incorporated in the City's Comprehensive Plan. The

overall objective of the Comprehensive Plan's Northgate policies is to transform an autooriented

landscape into a thriving multi-family residential and mixed-use Urban Center that

concentrates pedestrian-friendly and transit-oriented development in the urban core to protect

and complement surrounding neighborhoods.

Northgate's growth has lagged that of other Urban Centers' for more than a decade. Since

1995, development of new residential units reached only six percent